Re: [PATCH 2/3] Allow help.htmlpath to be an http: URL

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> So one solution would be to simply remove the check entirely. It was a
> slight nicety in some situations, but expanding the definition of the
> HTML path to include full URLs means we can no longer accurately
> determine what exists and what does not. So we can just stop trying and
> let the browser handle it completely.

This, and "://", both sound sensible.

> Another option would be to introduce a new "net" type of help format
> which accepts a URL instead of a path. That would leave the existing
> code-path untouched. But it does seem needlessly complex, as it would do
> more or less the same thing as the "html" format.

Yeah, that does not sound like a good reason to have such a complex
scheme.

Thanks.
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